Click Here To Read: The Searchers (1956) Screen: The Searchers’ Find Act on; Entertaining Western Opens at Criterion ‘Animal World’ Shown At Little Carnegie By Bosley Crowther in The New York Times on May 31, 1956.

If it had been originally in English, the title of the film, Stranger By the Lake, could easily be seen as a double entendre. Anyone who has seen the film would agree that it is, indeed, “stranger” by the lake, an all-male gathering place at which nudity, public sexuality and murder are accepted as commonplace. The other aspect of the double entendre is, of course, a reference to the stranger who is met by the lake, a place in which couples pair off, make love and fall in love with relative anonymity.

But that is if it had been originally in English. In fact, this is a French film, and the translators, presumably with the agreement of the film makers, applied that title to a film with the original title, L’Inconnu du Lac. I know from reading Camus in freshman French that The Stranger is L’Etranger in the original French. L’Inconnu translates literally as “the unknown.” Rather than remove the double entendre, this appears to add further layers of suggestion.

Click Here to Read: Review of: Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work: A biography of the remarkable actor by Susan L. Mizruch, Reviewed By Charles Bogle on the World Socialist Web Site on November 19, 2014.

Click Here to Read: New film exhibit gives moving glimpse of pre-WWII Jewish Poland ‘Letters to Afar,’ on show at the Museum of the City of New York, uses films by Jewish immigrants who traveled from NY back to Poland in the 1920s and 1930s BY Cathryn J. Prince in The Times of Israel on November 18, 2014.

Click Here To Read: No Banality in This Evil: A new documentary and a new book look at Himmler and Eichmann through newly discovered letters By Saul Austerlitz on The Tablet website on November 13, 2014.

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